Wednesday, March 4, 2009

I Am Legend (Matheson, Richard) 1954

Got this out of the library, and now the Last Man on Earth is in my netflix queue.  

--spoilers--

I think the idea of vampirism having a bacteriological origin was a neat idea, and the idea of Neville becoming the legend to the new race of people is a masterstroke.  The writing is very 50’s SFish, which is good in the sense that he’s concise, but it’s stylistically dated, so it would be interesting to see it rewritten by, say, Greg Bear.  Then again, maybe that’s what Blood Music is.  

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